Episode 1 · · 01:02:49
The famous Roottree sisters and their parents, heirs to a billion dollar candy empire, have suddenly died in a plane crash. The inheritance is in question, with a massive family tree...
Episode 1 · · 52:03
This week Nate and Laura cover Jusant, somehow our second 2023 tower game and our second 2023 climbing game — but micro-genres aside, Jusant’s got plenty of charms of its own. Don’t ...
Episode 1 · · 01:17:26
We’re a little late, but it’s time to talk about The Short Game’s Game of the Year! As with previous years we’re also handing out many superlatives, including returning awards like D...
Episode 1 · · 01:02:44
Laura and Raygan manage to shift one small shovel of their pile of shame before the holidays. We’re so glad to have made time for Chants of Sennaar, an incredible puzzle adventure ga...
Episode 1 · · 01:18:07
The latest game from Short Game favorite Inkle has proved to be a bit divisive. Laura enjoyed it, but Raygan hit some major issues that spoiled the experience. It made for an interes...
Episode 1 · · 56:31
Oh dang it’s a holiday weekend and we don’t have time to prep for an episode… Let me see what everybody else on the internet is doing right now… … So here’s the Short Game Holi...
Episode 1 · · 01:36:10
You’re here to slay the princess. Don’t believe her lies. This horror adventure (visual novel?) sets you a simple if trope-reversing task right in the title, then blows the doors ...
Episode 1 · · 57:54
Orb! Orb orb orb orb orb. Orb Orb? Orb Orb Orb!…
Episode 1 · · 01:05:14
We continue our coverage of IFComp 2023 with a few more games AND THEN WE GET KICKED IN THE NUTS!!!! [00:02:39] LAKE Adventure Follow-up by B.J. Best [00:08:27] Assembly by Be...
Episode 1 · · 57:13
Gordy and the Monster Moon is a bite-sized exploration-driven game about a pumpkin astronaut going on spooky adventures. It’s also a tiny part of the Frog Fractions extended universe...
Episode 1 · · 01:12:17
This week we’re talking about Gunbrella, a game that gets in its own way more than anything we’ve played in a while.
Episode 1 · · 54:53
This week we are kicking off our coverage of IFComp with coverage of a handful of games, including some new names and returning Short Game favorites. Looking forward to playing more ...
Episode 1 · · 01:12:05
This week Shane and Raygan betray the premise of the podcast and have a nice long chat about Baldur’s Gate 3, an immense game we’re both enjoying immensely, with some digressions i...
Episode 1 · · 57:25
As a follow up to our episode on our favorite mechanics, a listener suggested we talk about which ones we hate! So we did!
Episode 1 · · 01:04:53
This week we’re celebrating PICO-8 games! PICO-8 is a fantasy console for making, sharing and playing tiny games that runs on PC/Mac/Linux. Raygan, Nate, and Shane talk a little abou...
Episode 1 · · 01:02:34
Set sail with your Short Game hosts on a spooky adventure about… fishing? This week we’re covering Dredge by Black Salt games, who describes it as “a single-player fishing adventure ...
Episode 1 · · 55:31
From Flying to Fleas, this week we’re just about some of our favorite mechanics from the many games we’ve covered over the years.
Episode 1 · · 51:33
South Scrimshaw is uses the visual novel form to do something very unusual: a science fiction nature documentary. Using hundreds of beautiful bespoke watercolor and ink illustrations...
Episode 1 · · 44:29
Hope you’re hungry… for narrative fiction! This week we’re dealing with dosas and building biriyanis in Venba. It’s a story-driven cooking game centered on a South Indian family livi...
Episode 1 · · 01:07:23
We’re finally playing this long anticipated first person puzzler. (No Shane you can’t call the genre a “Portalortal”.) It’s a breezy but inventive and incredibly well executed explor...